UCLA Newsroom

UCLA Newsroom: the official newsroom of the University of California, Los Angeles

UCLA Newsroom is the news portal of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), one of the ten institutions that make up the University of California system. The site brings together institutional news, research advances, official statements, media coverage and content from UCLA Magazine, organized into topic categories such as arts and culture, environment and climate, faculty and staff, health and behavior, nation, world and society, science and technology, students and campus, and university news.

Editorial content and news coverage

The portal publishes news continuously about the university's academic, scientific and cultural activity. Topics covered include the admission of new students, paleontology research, philanthropic initiatives, podcasts about campus collections and libraries, and news from the university's athletic teams. The UCLA in the News section gathers appearances by the university in outside media, such as the Los Angeles Sentinel, KTLA-TV and the Los Angeles Times.

UCLA Newsroom also offers resources specifically for journalists, with campus press contacts, institutional statements, media advisories and news releases. It also maintains a faculty expert guide and a UCLA fast facts section.

UCLA institutional facts

UCLA's main campus occupies 419 acres in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The university was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California, and the Westwood campus officially opened in 1929. Julio Frenk became the seventh chancellor on January 1, 2025.

UCLA has been ranked the nation's No. 1 public university in eight of the past nine years by U.S. News & World Report, according to the institution itself. Its annual budget is around $11 billion. In the 2025-26 academic year it enrolled 49,013 students: 33,534 undergraduates, 13,898 graduate students and 1,581 medical and dental interns and residents. It is the campus with the largest enrollment in the University of California system and awarded 13,794 degrees during the 2024-25 academic year.

Academic offerings and admissions

The UCLA College and twelve professional schools offer more than 5,000 courses across a wide variety of undergraduate majors, master's, doctoral and professional programs, and minors. The university presents itself as the most applied-to in the country: for fall 2025 it received 173,374 undergraduate admission applications, of which 145,086 were from prospective first-year students and 28,288 from students seeking to transfer as juniors.

Tuition and student services fees for the 2025-26 academic year are $16,706 for California resident students and $55,976 for out-of-state students. Nearly half of undergraduates pay no tuition and close to a third receive Pell Grants. The graduation rate is approximately 88% within four years and 93% within six years.

Research, faculty and staff

The university receives about $1.6 billion annually in competitively awarded grants and contracts, and maintains more than 6,000 funded research projects. Its faculty, approximately 5,700 members, includes recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Science and Guggenheim, MacArthur and other fellowships. Its staff numbers around 43,000 employees, including student workers.

UCLA holds more than 1,200 active U.S. patents and more than 1,800 foreign patents in its portfolio, based on discoveries by its researchers.

Health, culture and continuing education

UCLA Health operates five hospitals in Los Angeles: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, in Westwood; UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, in Santa Monica; and UCLA West Valley Medical Center, in West Hills. It also manages more than 280 clinics in central California and on the central coast, and includes the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Its hospitals were ranked first in Los Angeles and California in the Best Hospitals 2025-26 evaluation by U.S. News & World Report.

The university presents itself as the leading arts and cultural center in the western United States, with more than 1,000 visual and performing arts events a year and more than 500,000 attendees. UCLA Extension, a pioneer in distance education, offers courses, programs and conferences for professionals around the world.

Athletics and community

UCLA has won 127 NCAA team national championships, the second-highest number in the country. After belonging to the Pac-12 Conference, it joined the Big Ten Conference in August 2024. More than half of undergraduates take part in some form of community service, and the university has more than 670,000 living alumni.

Location and contact

University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095